September 30 (BBC) - The houses belonged to the families of Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar who migrated to India in the years before Pakistan was created from British India in 1947. Officials in Peshawar say the dilapidated homes are to be bought, restored and turned into museums. The city has a vibrant cultural history, and a host of Bollywood's ...
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Mumbai, September 15 (Reuters) - A song from an upcoming Bollywood film has been rewritten after social media users criticised the original lyrics as racist for glorifying fair skin and making an inappropriate reference to Black American pop star Beyonce. The offending lyrics, which translated as 'After looking at you fair woman, Beyonce would feel shy', featured in a song ...
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September 9 (BBC) - Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty has been arrested by India's narcotics control authority in a drugs case related to the death of her actor-boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput. Rajput, 34, was found dead in his flat in Mumbai on 14 June. Police said he had killed himself. His family, however, registered a police complaint against Chakraborty, accusing her ...
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June 14 (India Today) - Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide on June 14 at his Bandra home in Mumbai. The actor was 34 years old. The actor hanged himself at his home. Sushant's death has sent a shockwave across the nation. The actor's friends and colleagues from the Hindi film industry have taken to Twitter to mourn his death. Filmmaker ...
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Mumbai, April 30 (India Today) - Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor breathed his last on April 30. The actor was admitted to HN Reliance Hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday morning. Rishi Kapoor was battling cancer since 2018, and was in the US for treatment for a year. The actor's brother, Randhir Kapoor, told the media on Wednesday night that he was ...
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Mumbai, April 29 (The Guardian) - Irrfan Khan, the Indian-born actor who achieved considerable success in both Bollywood and the west, has died aged 53. He had been admitted to the intensive care unit of Mumbai’s Kokilaben hospital on Tuesday with a colon infection. In March 2018, he revealed he had been diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour, but after extensive treatment ...
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